Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Past & Present. And here poem and film link the great past to the great present. It is unlikely that anything on the subject has been written to excel Shakespeare's short study, in Henry V, of men stranded on the verge of death and disaster. The man who made this movie made it midway in England's most terrible war, within the shadows of Dunkirk. In appearance and in most of what they say, the three soldiers with whom Henry talks on the eve of Agincourt might just as well be soldiers of World War II. No film...
...usual, the Communists excel in organization and discipline. They support the Socialist-inspired "revolution by law." but they oppose the Socialists who are conducting it. They have also become General de Gaulle's severest critics, accuse him of seeking personal power, find fault with his foreign policy because he now finds fault with Russia. They opposed the General on the issue of a stronger executive arm. They lost. The "No" vote they promoted (34%) is the measure of the Provisional Government's opposition...
...amusement center for U.S. troops. It would provide billiards, rifle shooting, golf, tennis, fried fish, sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...
Said the Socialist Avanti: "Thus disappears from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation...
...Dewey had plugged hard at this task, consulting steadily with the nearby state organizations, ironing out intramural squabbles, quietly dropping dead wood, promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His strategy was plain. He might not be able to excel Quarterback Roosevelt in gay improvisation, tricky forward passes and dazzling end runs, but Tom Dewey was going to try to win by sheer hard work, detailed planning, and power plays...